Editing Mullah Omar (section)

== Personal life ==
Despite his political rank and his high status on the [[Rewards for Justice Program|Rewards for Justice]] most wanted list,<ref name="rjfEnglish" /> not much was publicly known about Omar. Omar made only one public speech and always refused to meet foreigners;<ref name="visionary">{{Cite web |title='Visionary' mullah who protects terror leader is mentally unstable |url=https://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/visionary-mullah-who-protects-terror-leader-is-mentally-unstable-26070431.html |website=Independent|date=7 October 2001 }}</ref> Before his death, only one known photo existed of him. After his death, the Taliban released a newer and clearer photo showing Omar in his youth in 1978.<ref>{{cite web |last=AFP |date=12 October 2015 |title=Rare new picture surfaces of Taliban founder Mullah Omar |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1212611 |access-date=14 June 2016 |website=Dawn |location=Pakistan}}</ref>

Accounts of his physical appearance state that Omar was thin, strongly built and very tall, at around {{convert|6|ft|6|in|abbr=on|order=flip}}.<ref name="conflict" /><ref name="Ismail Khan 1996, p. 226"/><ref name="auto"/> Omar was described as shy and taciturn,<ref>{{cite web |date=5 March 2007 |title=Afghanistan: Taliban Preps for Bloody Assault |url=https://www.newsweek.com/afghanistan-taliban-preps-bloody-assault-95547 |website=Newsweek}}</ref> by{{snd}}for example{{snd}}the famed Afghan poet [[Abdul Bari Jahani]], who visited him with academics and activists at the beginning of his rule. The members of this group applauded the order and security he brought to the country, and Jahani remembers him as a "tall and handsome" man who "listened in quiet."<ref>Mujib Mashal (6 June 2012), [https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/06/20126665650415526.html "The myth of Mullah Omar"], ''Al Jazeera''. Retrieved 20 April 2020.</ref> Zaeef said "he listened, he was patient, and he did not react in anger." Conversely, a former Saudi intelligence chief who met him said Omar was "extremely nervous, perspired, and even screamed at me."{{sfn|Aggarwal|2016}} Senior Taliban leaders claimed he would "stumble over his native tongue in the interviews he occasionally gave the [[BBC Pashto]] service."{{sfn|Aggarwal|2016}} He had "at least" three wives and "at least" five or six children,<ref>CNN Library (1 May 2017), [https://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/30/middleeast/mullah-mohammed-omar-fast-facts "Mullah Mohammed Omar Fast Facts"], ''CNN''. Retrieved 24 April 2020.</ref> including [[Mullah Yaqoob]], the current acting [[Minister of Defence (Afghanistan)|Defence Minister of Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite web |date=7 September 2021 |title=Taliban Announces Head of State, Acting Ministers |url=https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-174556 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907165904/https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-174556 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |access-date=22 September 2021 |website=tolonews.com |publisher=[[TOLOnews]] |language=en}}</ref>

Omar refused to and never made a [[Hajj|pilgrimage to Mecca]], despite receiving a personal invitation from King [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia]] to do so in 1998.<ref name="newsweek.com">{{cite web |date=15 October 2015 |title=Afghanistan: Has Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Lost His Mind? |url=http://www.newsweek.com/afghanistan-has-taliban-leader-mullah-omar-lost-his-mind-65447 |access-date=14 August 2015 |website=Newsweek}}</ref>